Jean-Pierre-Joseph d\' Arcet

See also: Arcet

Jean-Pierre-Joseph d' Arcet , born with Paris the August 31st 1777 and died in Paris the August 2nd 1844, is a French chemist.

He continues work of his father Jean d' Arcet. He is named general police chief of the currencies and he is elected member of the Academy of Science in 1823. He creates the first factories of Soude and of artificial Potasse as well as alum, improves the soap factory and stereotyping. It makes many research on alloys, the refining of metals, the manufacture and the fitting of the currencies, and succeeds in decreasing, by means of the ventilators, the dangers of a great number of industries: gilding, sulphuring stoves, drainings.

It is especially known for its experiments on the Gélatine. Its discoveries are at the origin of the development of the Vichy tablet.

Principal publications

Mémoire on the bones coming from the butcher's meat, in which one treats conservation of these bones, extraction of their gelatin by the means of the vapor, and the food uses of gelatinous dissolution that one obtains (1829) from it Text in line
Description of the heating appliances to be used to raise suitably the temperature of the current ventilator in the salubrious magnaneries (1841) Text in line
Collection of memories relating to the cleansing of the workshops, the public edifices and the particular dwellings (1843) Text in line

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